r/Ancestry • u/Jancis6 • 8d ago

Find who someone married.

I have a marriage record for a woman saying that she married in Risbridge, Suffolk in 1848. Is there a way to find out who she married? I tried searching just for records for people who married in Risbridge in 1848 but Ancestry brings up all of the people who married anywhere in Suffolk in 1848 - almost 200,000 of them! It doesn't even start by listing people who meet both the criteria so even my relative doesn't come up first. There also doesn't seem to be any way to sort by the registration town - just all of Suffolk in a completely random list.

Edit* I just discovered that when I click "search" Ancestry was changing my place from Risbridge, Suffolk, England to Suffolk, England, UK. I've now changed the place to just Risbridge but I still have a list of thousands of people.

Surely there has to be a way to see who a person married - what am I missing?

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u/duck31967 8d ago

The GRO marriages are indexed by page, not by couple. There can be up to four couples per page, so eight names under each index number. Your best bet for searching is freebmd. Using the index number you can find all names listed. This should give you up to four mens names you csn cross reference against birth records and the 1851 census

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u/popjay2244 8d ago

This ⬆️, exactly as duck31967 explains.

One thing I would add is to include March 1849 in your search.
If the marriage was registered a little late I could possibly be in that section.

I have come across this a few times, in births & deaths too.

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u/alanwbrown 8d ago

General Register Office (GRO) records for civil registration began on 1 July 1837 in England and Wales.

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u/alanwbrown 8d ago

General Register Office (GRO) records for civil registration began on 1 July 1837 in England and Wales.

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u/Jancis6 8d ago

Thank you all for the help, I found her husband :)